code: def strip_values_if_series(values):
      if isinstance(values, pd.Series):
          values = values.values
      return values
  
imports: from datetime import datetime
  from functools import partial
  import numpy
  import pandas
  import pandas.api.types
  from featuretools.entityset.relationship import RelationshipPath
  from featuretools.exceptions import UnknownFeature
  from featuretools.feature_base import AggregationFeature, DirectFeature, GroupByTransformFeature, IdentityFeature, TransformFeature
  from featuretools.utils import Trie
  from featuretools.utils.gen_utils import Library, get_relationship_column_id, import_or_none, is_instance
label_desc: Use image node_id 4 for calling a global function with example usage: strip_values_if_series(values) and returns: values